Hints and tips:
...Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign trade, says that it is pursuing “government to government” engagement on minerals and that there is “a lot of focus on the African continent...
...Macklin notes the recent surge in the country’s economy, one of the largest in the Asia-Pacific region after China, and a growing international interest in Indian art....
...UN climate body chief Simon Stiell said the Dubai “outcome is the beginning of the end” for the fossil fuel industry....
...The United States Attorneys around America started engaging a lot more....
...In recent years, he has been marketing a highly lucrative legal strategy that has enabled Johnson & Johnson, Saint-Gobain, Trane Technologies and Georgia Pacific, which is owned by Koch Industries, to halt...
...of our waters to the fossil fuel industry,” Manuel said....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...Despairing of a strong US presence, America’s allies in the region (Japan, Australia, New Zealand et al) will agonise about how much they can slow-walk China’s application to join the CPTPP....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...As the first senior United Arab Emirates official to visit the Biden administration touched down in Washington, the message the Gulf state sought to promote was “the strength and continuity” of the partnership...
...Nato is in the interest of the United States, as it is in the interest of Europe to stand together with North America....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The United Arab Emirates will start producing the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from April, helping the Gulf state accelerate plans to supply coronavirus jabs around the world....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, had been killed “by French forces”. The coincidence was an awkward one for Macron....
...Nike promoted Sarah Mensah, vice-president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific region, to VP/GM of North America....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...Now Sycamore is suing L Brands in Delaware state court to walk away in the middle of the shutdown across America caused by the coronavirus....
...Charted waters Showing support for the manufacturing industry in Rust Belt states such as Michigan — a state that Trump won by a wafer-thin margin in 2016 — is key for US presidential hopefuls....
...(FT) Hong Kong government to take stake in Cathay Pacific A state-backed HK$39bn ($5bn) recapitalisation programme will give the government a presence on the airline’s board, raising questions about potential...
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Royal United Services Institute....
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